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The Seasonal Urchin Bookshelf Revampathon!
It’s that time again, kids! Here are the books on our horizons. Margaret’s books A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway It’s a tad embarrassing that I’m just now getting around to reading this. A Moveable Feast is Hemingway’s posthumous classic … Continue reading
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Tagged A Moveable Feast, ali smith, books, ernest hemingway, gone to new york, graphic novels, ian frazier, john steinbeck, marjane satrapi, novels, of mice and men, robertson davies, the accidental, the deptford trilogy, the sigh, travel writing, urchin bookshelf, world of wonders
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That’s What He Said
Three times Jan had been called to the colours [military service], but each time had been deferred because of his deplorable physical condition, a circumstance which threw ample light on Jan Bronski’s constitution in those days, when every male who … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues, That's What They Said
Tagged books, gunter grass, jan bronski, military, novels, The Tin Drum, verdun, War!
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You May Know Him As the Guy Whose Book Was Made Into the Movie ‘True Grit’
By Geo Ong Or you may not know him at all. His name is Charles Portis, and he’s an American novelist. Before True Grit was a Coen Brothers movie, it was a 1969 movie directed by a fella called Henry … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged absurdism, atlantis, black humor, black humour, books, books into movies, catch-22, charles portis, coen brothers, comedy, fiction, gnomon society, gnomonism, henry hathaway, masters of atlantis, novels, pythagoras, the master and margarita, thomas pynchon, True Grit
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My Time at the Coffee House and Karen Tei Yamashita’s ‘I Hotel’
By Geo Ong I had a good feeling about I Hotel, a novel by Karen Tei Yamashita, right from the start. In the first pages, before the copyright and title page, was printed the mission statement of Coffee House Press, … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged art as social revolution, books, cafes, civil rights movement, coffee, coffee house press, coffee houses, coffeeshops, fiction, i hotel, inspiration, international hotel, karen tei yamashita, minneapolis, nonprofit, novels, publishing companies, san francisco, sixties, social movements, tea, yellow power movement
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Add Your Books to the Urchin Bookshelf!
Us again! Sorry to interrupt, but would you mind turning down your Urchin Mix Tape for a hot minute? We have a special announcement to make! One of the things that brought the Urchins together, aside from our astronomical London … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Guest Urchins, Literature
Tagged books, fiction, nonfiction, novels, urchin bookshelf, urchin mix tape
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NaNoWriMo: Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon!
By Geo Ong Forget Halloween for just a moment. November is a scary month. Why? One word: NaNoWriMo. Confused? Okay, four words: National Novel Writing Month. From the official NaNoWriMo website: NaNoWriMo is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. … Continue reading
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Tagged nanowrimo, national novel writing month, novels, november, writers, writing
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Banned Books Week, 25 September – 2 October 2010
To you zealots and bigots and false patriots who live in fear of discourse. You screamers and banners and burners who would force books off shelves in your brand name of greater good. You say you’re afraid for children, innocents … Continue reading
Walking into History – Harder than It Seems
By Geo Ong When the Urchins go down in history and some lucky duck gets commissioned to pen our biography – it won’t be as good as our joint autobiography and three individual autobiographies – the anecdote about the Urchins … Continue reading
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Tagged books, harlem, invisible man, new york city, novels, ralph ellison, ralph ellison's apartment
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